110 = 6!
111 =7!
And so on,…!
With numbers in binary you can represent any character on your keyboard, numbers or letters.
The numbers assigned to characters, from which your source code is built, are defined in the
ASCII tables, the standardized tables of the language of computer scientists.
The oldest formulated calendar that is known of was written out by the Sumerians and
reconciled the orbit of the moon to the orbit of the earth and was done in the way we still do it
today by inheritance from them by making 12 moons (solar months) per one sun (one year or
completion of the earth around the Sun). The 24 hour day came to us from the Babylonians
and minutes and seconds did not come to us until much later by the Ancient Greeks. The
further division of hours into 60 minutes and minutes into 60 seconds was initiated by Claudius
Ptolemy in his Almagest who divided the latitudes of the earth by 60 to make minutes, and
those by 60 to make seconds. But ultimately dividing things by 60 ultimately comes from the
the Babylonians who inherited it from the Sumerian counting system which was sexagesimal
(base 60) perhaps because of its convenience for dividing fractions because it is the smallest
number divisible by 1, 2, 3. 4, 5, 6, 12, 10, 15, 20, 30 evenly. The second is now more precisely
defined by 9,192,631,770 energy transitions in a cesium atom (1967) which began atomic time
keeping and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).!
Often used by peoples is what we use today; decimal or base ten because we have ten fingers
to count on, or duodecimal (base 12) because we have 12 joints on our fingers to count, three
for each finger. Thus it all comes from the hand. The twelve hand joints on the hand and 10
fingers taking our two hands together add to make 24 like 24 hours in a day if we bring in the
two joints of the thumbs. As well two hands is the 2 of binary. I would like to suggest we
include a base 14 system by adding the two joints on the thumb to consider archaeologically.!
On Thursday, January 23, 2014 I put forward the following question:!
Are our common usage of variables connected to Nature and the Universe?* I began to look at
this with the following entry: !
We look at (x, y, z,) as they represent the three axis in rectangular coordinates.*We look at* (i, j,
k) as as they are the representations for the unit vectors, and they correspond respectively to
(x, y, z).* We look at*(a, b, c) which has the same kind of correspondence with (x, y, z) as (i, j, k).
All three sets, then, line up with one another and are at the basis of math and physics:!
(a, b, c) corresponds to (x, y, z) corresponds to <i, j, k>.!
(a, b, c) in ASCII computer code is (97, 98, 99) the first three numbers before a hundred and
100 is totality (100%).!
(i, j, k) in numeric are is (9, 10, 11) the first three numbers before twelve and 12 is totality in the
sense that 12 is the most abundant number for its size!
(divisible by 1,2, 3, 4, 6 = 16 is larger than 12).!
(x, y, z) in ASCII computer code is (120, 121, 122) the first three numbers before 123 and 123 is
the number with the digits 1, 2, 3 which are the numeric numbers for the!
(a, b, c) that we started with. These sets of variables, unit vectors, and numbers came before
the advent of the development of the computer and its ascii codes.!